
Armed with questions that either solicited answers too long for the allotted 20 minutes or were completely irrelevant to Vincent Lam's book Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, this newbie journalist was ready to take on the Giller prize winning Canadian writer.
I attended this year's International Festival of Authors (IFOA) because I like to pretend I'm literary. As a fourth year English student at a college that has a building named after Northrop Frye, the granddaddy of Canadian literary criticism, and a student pub named after a Margaret Atwood novel, this is kinda my thing.
The idea of community is one that holds true for both Victoria College today and Catherine Emmanuel's current lifestyle. The Vic grad from the late 90's is both a model and documentary filmmaker, and is always on the go and interacting with people.
From a ten year old boy confessing his love for a girl he has known since he was six, to an old woman in a wheel chair warning that life passes too quickly, Frank Warren's A Lifetime of Secrets is just that: a collection of secrets that embody youth, teen angst, mid-life crises, old age and death.
